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This paper presents a neural network-based method for automatic classification of magnetic resonance images (MRI) of brain under three categories of normal, lesion benign, and malignant. The proposed technique consists of six subsequent stages; namely, preprocessing, seeded region growing segmentation, connected component labeling (CCL), feature extraction, feature Dimension Reduction, and classification. In the preprocessing stage, the enhancement and restoration techniques are used to provide a more appropriate image for the subsequent automated stages. In the second stage, the seeded region growing segmentation is used for partitioning the image into meaningful regions. In the third... 

A new Voronoi diagram in Laguerre geometry based on closed-pack non-overlapping circles was proposed. This diagram was used to simulate microstructure of severely deformed materials at different applied strains. Grains size and their fractions were introduced by controlling the size and distribution of nuclei. Edge number distribution and neighboring cells edge number along with area distribution of the simulated Voronoi cells were determined. The edge number distribution was observed to fit gamma distribution more accurately. However, due to high inhomogeneity in the microstructure of the deformed samples at low strains, edge number distribution could not be matched by any distribution... 

We have studied the symmetric and non-symmetric pairwise ground state and thermal entanglement in three-qubits system. We have considered the anisotropic Heisenberg (XXZ) model in the presence of DzyaloshinskiiMoriya (DM) interaction in addition to the Ising model in a magnetic field with DM interaction. We have found that the increment of DM interaction and magnetic field can enhance and reduce the entanglement of the system. We have shown that the non-symmetric pairwise state has higher value concurrence and critical temperature (above which the entanglement vanishes) than the symmetric pairwise one. For the negative anisotropy, the non-symmetric entanglement is a monotonic function of DM... 

In this article, two optical-fibre probes used in displacement measurements are reported. In one arrangement, two optical fibres with protective buffer jackets are placed together, while in the second arrangement, the protective buffer jackets are removed and the two fibres are placed with the claddings in contact, with a concomitant smaller centrecentre distance. As the core and cladding diameters are the same in both probes, the effect of the centrecentre distance on double-fibre designs can be investigated. The reflected output powers are recorded for the probes as a function of the axial distance from a reflective surface. A theoretical model is also implemented, which considers the... 

This paper aims at applying H.264/AVC in medical video compression applications and improving its compression performance with higher perceptual quality and lower coding complexity. We propose a new method that uses lossless compression in the region of interest (ROI) and very high rate lossy compression in other regions. The propose method achieves a fast intra- and interprediction mode decision that is based on encountering coarse MBs for intra- and inter- prediction mode decision of the background region and fine MBs for the ROI region. The MBs of the background region are encoded with the maximum quantization parameter allowed by H.264/AVC in order to maximize the number of null... 

In this study simulation results for three double-fiber optical designs for the reflection measurements are reported. Modeling is perused for three cases namely Equal Fibers (EF), transmitter fiber shorter (TS) and receiver fiber shorter (RS) designs. By proper modeling and written programs the operations of such symmetric double-fiber probes are simulated and the role of different crucial parameters such as fiber-to-fiber distance (t), fiber core radius (r) and fiber Numerical Aperture (NA) are investigated. In the second study simulation results for the transmitter fiber shorter and receiver fiber shorter designs are investigated for different fiber length differences (w). Finally... 

Polymer concrete (PC) has been widely used for quick repairing of concrete pavement and structures in recent years. This paper studies the mechanical behavior of the rubberized polymer concrete. Crumb and chipped rubber were used to replace fine and coarse aggregates in PC, respectively. A complete series of destructive tests including impact test, compression and splitting tensile tests and non-destructive methods including ultrasonic test, digital signal processing, electrical conductivity, and microstructure analysis was performed to demonstrate the various potential applications of the rubberized PC. X-ray diffraction (XRD) also provided information regarding the chemical composition and... 

Field analysis of ring resonator modulators based on p-i-n diodes has been dissected in this paper. This analysis is performed in time and frequency domains. The conformal transformation method has been used for solving 3-D wave equation. Coupling coefficient between the ring and straight waveguides are obtained by developing the coupled-mode assumption. In the resonant wavelength of 1573.91 nm, a drop of more than 15 dB in frequency spectrum of the device has been observed. Time domain simulation shows that this modulator could support up to 0.4 Gb/s and up to 1.5 Gb/s for NRZ and RZ signals, respectively. Obtained simulation results in both domains have been properly complied with... 

For integers n, k, and i, the generalized Kneser graph K(n, k, i), is a graph whose vertices are subsets of size k of the set {1, 2, ..., n} and two vertices F and F are connected if and only if their intersection has less than i elements. In this paper we study the chromatic number of this graph. Some new bounds and properties for this chromatic number are derived. © 2017 University of Calgary